Social media

Later alternatives

1 open-source project that already does this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio2,103AGPL-3.0Self-hostable social media management platform for scheduling, publishing, and managing content across multiple platforms.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Later’s proprietary creator & transaction dataset (20M+ creators, 1B+ Link in Bio transactions, $2B+ purchase data)
Influencer marketplace/network and managed campaign services
Enterprise analytics, competitive benchmarking, and brand health features
Built-in AI credits ecosystem and any proprietary EdgeAI models trained on Later data

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Later, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.